Is humanity this dumb? Good PR move by the French mayor though. Drive tourism through idiots. Also, if I am wrong, who give a F. I will be dead.
Crazy thing is, 21 Dec 2012 is finals day for my school. And it's exactly one week after my 18th birthday. Yay....
I'm sorry. Is there a current massive shortage of food and supplies in stores? No. Then what's the problem? If people want to be prepared for financial collapse (Not end of world. If the world is going to end why would they need food and supplies. Duh!) (Also, you say the economy is suffering and then wonder why people are stocking up. Really?) then let them. You can then save all of your money for repaints of toys you already have. (The real priority for some people. Certainly not a waste of money ) If they're wrong they're only hurting themselves.
Wait, isn't it actually good for the economy when you have people buying stuff they don't really need? They ARE spending their money after all.
This whole thing is just plain stupid. I cannot wait for nothing to happen, so it'll just go away like Y2K.
You guys need to stop joking about this. Those calenders are gonna totally wreck our shit come the 21st.
So basically its sort of like when our calendar went from BC to AD or something like that? I dont know much about the mayan calendar myself.......other then if they really could see the future they wouldnt have gotten wiped out.
No, not that. That was all done after the fact. It's literally like flipping to December on a printed calendar, as someone mentioned earlier. Your calendar ends, not the world entirely. You just have to buy a new calendar. The Mayans would have just started on a new calendar. Also, knowing future events doesn't necessarily mean you know how to stop them (or even if you ultimately can, like in The Time Machine). There could also be the aspect of knowing your fate and simply accepting it.
Actually the ancient Maya did believe that the world would end Dec. 21 2012. The ancient Maya believed that creation only lasted 14000 long count units. And that when the change happened the gods descended and destroyed everything to rebuild it again, and make adjustments. And that such destruction and re-creation had already happened 4 times. Modern Maya don't give it much heed. But the whole world ends on Dec 21st is based on a Meso-American religious belief that some morons have taken as being true.
you're right and possibly wrong here. The Maya, in their religion, did believe in past cycles having creation and destruction but this cycle we're in is considered the "perfect" world that their gods made. Many modern mayans believe in this and that is why they dont "take heed" of anything. If you actually did more research, you'd find out that a recently found mayan scribe describes some mayan king, who was known for celebrating important calender endings, linking himself with our 2012 date, implying that the mayans would celebrate this date, rather than die. If you really knew about how the mayans and their calenders worked, you'd find out that there are dates on the long count for important mayan celebrations that go as far as the year 4000 (cant celebrate if there's a "new world", now can they? so this entire "every 14000 calender units the world ends" theory contradicts itself ALOT). And even IF they predicted some cataclysm, there's just NO scientific proof behind it all. It's just a DEAD religion that crazy people have used for an excuse to spread fear and make money. I mean, they don't even know which cataclysm is supposed to happen!(flood, comet, earthquake, pole shift???). so if you believe in this shit, you're no better than one of harold camping's believers.
Your post makes Zero sense. Nobody preps for the end of the world. People prep for natural Disasters. Having been through Hurricane Andrew I have ever since been prepared to survive off the grid for a good period of time. Modern society is fully dependent on the function of many different and fragile systems. Food, Water, Fuel, and electricity are provided for you. Take any of those resources away for a few weeks, or god forbid take them away from EVERYONE and society collapses. I have a year worth of food for my family, fuel, water, generators, guns, ammo, axes, knives, I know how to purify water, smoke and dry meats, bla bla bla. You can call me crazy if you want to, I still buy my toys, race my cars, take the family on vacation and live my life like everyone. Only difference is, I'm prepared for the worst. I fail to see how that makes me a dumbass.
